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• Skanska lands design role on £1.25bn steelworks

  06-02-2025 15:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tata Steel has appointed Skanska to provide design and project management services for its new £1.25bn low carbon steelworks scheme at Port Talbot in South Wales.
  Sir Robert McAlpine was awarded the the main, civil, structural and building works last week for the construction of a new electric arc furnace-based steel production facility that will produce around three million tonnes of steel per year.
  Under the latest deal, Skanska’s Technology business will provide civil and structur
  
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• SRL launches giant Solihull control centre

  06-02-2025 14:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  SRL Traffic Systems is launching its largest facility to date.
  The multi-purpose Solihull hub will enable the company to provide its customers with an increasingly efficient service, as well as hosting its new REMOS remotely operated signal operation.
  SRL is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of mobile intelligent transport system (ITS) solutions to the traffic management, construction, utilities and events sectors.  Standing at almost 30,000 sq ft, the new centre wil
  
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• Bleak January for construction buyers

  06-02-2025 11:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction buyers reported a downturn in output in January halting a 10-month run of industry expansion.
  The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 48.1 in January from 53.3 in December.
  It was the first time the index registered below the 50.0 no-change threshold since February 2024.Contractors blamed the fall on delayed decision-making by clients on major projects and general economic uncertainty weighing down business activity at the start o
  
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• Contract winners revealed for £332m Didcot infrastructure job

  06-02-2025 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Oxfordshire County Council has signed contracts with GRAHAM Construction Ltd and AECOM to deliver stage two of a £332m scheme to improve infrastructure around Didcot.
  GRAHAM is undertaking the detailed design of the Culham river crossing and the Clifton Hampden bypass elements of the scheme while the detailed design of the Didcot Science Bridge and the widening of the A4130 is being led by AECOM.
  Following detailed design work construction is expected to start in early 2026.Councillor Judy
  
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• Starmer rips up rules to ease building of nuclear reactors

  06-02-2025 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The government has unveiled plans to make it easier to build mini nuclear power stations in England and Wales.
  Reforms to planning rules will clear a path for the next generation small modular nuclear reactors to be built for the first time and speed up development of larger schemes.
  Currently, nuclear development is restricted to eight sites in the UK, as part of a planning statement on nuclear power generation that was made in 2011.
  With the reforms unveiled today, the refreshed planning frame
  
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• McAlpine tops January work league with steelworks win

  06-02-2025 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sir Robert McAlpine’s massive order for the new low carbon steelworks in South Wales shot the firm to the top of January’s contracts league.
  McAlpine’s construction management deal will see it run main civil, structural and building works required for the £1.25bn investment in building a new electric arc furnace-based steel production facility for Tata at Port Talbot’s works.
  The deal also catapulted the firm from 13th to fourth in the contractor rankings for most w
  
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• McLaren winning spree as £1bn turnover in sight

  06-02-2025 01:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren Construction is poised for a string of major project wins as the contractor looks to pass the £1bn turnover mark this year.
  The Enquirer understands that McLaren will shortly sign deals for the £200m+ Cardiff Arena scheme and the £120m refit of of London’s landmark Barkers of Kensington department store.
  The wins keep the contractor on course to top the £1bn revenue mark after posting a positive set of results for the year ending 31 July 2024 showing turnove
  
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